January 22, 2026 Digital Rights Social

When: January 22, 2026 Time: 14 UTC / Check my time zone here Where: TCU Mattermost | Secure an account here Host: The Lovely Erin :) Join us for the welcome back monthly social! Share your goals for 2026 and beyond, connect with new projects and people, share your work and research, and discuss updates and announcements from the digital rights space! Leading experts and projects will also be featured on a regular basis!!

This is part of the monthly Digital Rights Socials. Check out the next one and previous ones here:

Notes

Some community music recommendations to get you through the beginning of 2026...

• Irie FM
• Light Years (Full Album) - Nas and DJ Premier
• Los Cocineros
• Ruzhowa- Jah Prayzah (Zimbabwean, probably the biggest song of 2025)
• The Bee Gees - Nights on Broadway
• Silvio Rodriguez
• Afrobeat and Dancehall recommendations: Jahmiel, StoneBoy, Fireboy DLM, Davido and Adekunle Gold
• Reflection - Tool

Community-Highlighted Projects:

• Abrimos
• Sutty
• Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI)
• Don't Delete Art
  • Don't Delete Art is a collaborative project between artists, the National Coalition Against Censorship (in NYC), Freemuse, and Artists At Risk Connection. We are a unique project focused on visual artists facing censorship online. As part of our work, we take censorship reports, advocate for the inclusion of artistic perspectives in content moderation enforcement and platform policy design, maintain a gallery on our website of art censored online, and engage in advocacy initiatives. For example, we will be collaborating with the original Free The Nipple campaign this year to draw attention to bias in how bodies in art are censored online, and the effects on not just artists but the art world at large.
• Museum of Crimes of Thought
  • MARCH and The Virtual Museum of Censorship
  • This Virtual Museum in Lebanon is Winning Censorship Battles
  • Şanar Yurdatapan's Museum of Crimes of Thought Takes Aim at Growing Oppression in Turkey
• Amnesia
  • "Información pública resguradada ante gobiernos sin memoria." Making a backup of the Mexican democracy where possible with support from Derechos Digitales and Mozilla.
• Escuela Común
• DisCO

Keep an eye out for...

• Fairwork Argentina will launch a report on working conditions in platform work the week of January 26th.
• 2026 Global Gathering applications are open! The event will be taking place in Portugal again, from September 4 to 6 and you can apply here: https://gathering.digitalrights.community.
• TCU is launching Digital Rights Socials where folks can network and connect with/learn from experts in the field. Ping us if you want your project featured or you would like to see a specific project or topic covered: [email protected]